Luke 13:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and if indeed it may bear fruit --; and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

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  • Ezra 9:14-15 : 14 do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us -- even to consumption -- till there is no remnant and escaped part? 15 `O Jehovah, God of Israel, righteous `art' Thou, for we have been left an escape, as `it is' this day; lo, we `are' before Thee in our guilt, for there is none to stand before Thee concerning this.'
  • Ps 69:22-28 : 22 Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap. 23 Darkened are their eyes from seeing, And their loins continually shake Thou. 24 Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them. 25 Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller. 26 For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones. 27 Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness. 28 They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.
  • Dan 9:5-8 : 5 we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments: 6 and we have not hearkened unto Thy servants, the prophets, who have spoken in Thy name unto our kings, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 `To Thee, O Lord, `is' the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as `at' this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, in all the lands whither Thou hast driven them, in their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee. 8 `O Lord, to us `is' the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.
  • John 15:2 : 2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,
  • Heb 6:8 : 8 and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;
  • Rev 15:3-4 : 3 and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful `are' Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true `are' Thy ways, O King of saints, 4 who may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone `art' kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.'
  • Rev 16:5-7 : 5 and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying, `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge, 6 because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;' 7 and I heard another out of the altar, saying, `Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous `are' Thy judgments.'

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  • Luke 13:6-8
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    6 And he spake this simile: `A certain one had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit in it, and he did not find;

    7 and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

    8 `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

  • 9 and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'

  • Matt 7:16-20
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    16 From their fruits ye shall know them; do `men' gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs?

    17 so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits.

    18 A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.

    19 Every tree not yielding good fruit is cut down and is cast to fire:

    20 therefore from their fruits ye shall know them.

  • 10 and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.

  • John 15:4-6
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    4 remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

    5 `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

    6 if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

  • 13 And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

  • 2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

  • 19 and having seen a certain fig-tree on the way, he came to it, and found nothing in it except leaves only, and he saith to it, `No more from thee may fruit be -- to the age;' and forthwith the fig-tree withered.

  • Ezek 17:8-9
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    8 On a good field, by many waters, it is planted, To make branches, and to bear fruit, To be for an goodly vine.

    9 Say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It prospereth -- its roots doth he not draw out, And its fruit cut off, and it is withered? `In' all the leaves of its springing it withereth, And not by great strength, and by a numerous people, To lift it up by its roots.

  • 33 `Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.

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    13 and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

    14 and Jesus answering said to it, `No more from thee -- to the age -- may any eat fruit;' and his disciples were hearing.

  • 5 For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath `one' cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.

  • 9 `What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.

  • Job 14:7-8
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    7 For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.

    8 If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust,

  • 6 and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

  • Luke 6:43-44
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    43 `For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

    44 for each tree from its own fruit is known, for not from thorns do they gather figs, nor from a bramble do they crop a grape.

  • 11 And the fig saith to them, Have I ceased from my sweetness, and my good increase, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?

  • 29 and whenever the fruit may yield itself, immediately he doth send forth the sickle, because the harvest hath come.'

  • 29 And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

  • 29 `And he said, No, lest -- gathering up the darnel -- ye root up with it the wheat,

  • Matt 13:8-9
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    8 and others fell upon the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.

    9 He who is having ears to hear -- let him hear.'

  • 7 and other fell toward the thorns, and the thorns did come up, and choke it, and fruit it gave not;

  • 2 and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard,

  • 19 It is like to a grain of mustard, which a man having taken, did cast into his garden, and it increased, and came to a great tree, and the fowls of the heavens did rest in its branches.'

  • 8 and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;

  • 9 And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

  • 16 From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

  • 4 What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

  • 24 verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;

  • 9 And his disciples were questioning him, saying, `What may this simile be?'

  • 34 `And when the season of the fruits came nigh, he sent his servants unto the husbandmen, to receive the fruits of it,

  • 33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

  • 45 `And if thy foot may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into the life lame, than having the two feet to be cast to the gehenna, to the fire -- the unquenchable --

  • 20 And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

  • 41 They say to him, `Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

  • 3 `Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,

  • 28 `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;